Folding leg for couch-beds.



M. J. HALPIN.

FOLDING LEG FOR COUCH BEDS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30, 1911.

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ATTORNEY COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH co., WASHINGTON. n. c

MICHAEL J. HALPIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE ENGLANIDER SPRING BED COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NE'W' YORK.

FOLDING LEG FOR COUCH-BEDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 23, 1912.

Application filed March 30, 1911. Serial No. 617,875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL J. HALPIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Legs for Couch-Beds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to couches or couch beds, or divans, the object of the invention being to provide an improved metallic formed structure of the class described in which the legs may be readily folded so that the structure may be shipped or stored away in a comparatively small space and in which the legs will be rigidly and elfeotively supported in their perpendicular po sition when it is desired to use the structure as a couch, the gist of the present improvement being to provide an improved means of accomplishing these purposes and by means of which the proper positioning of the leg may be obtained so that the same will be in a proper upright position, and the invention is in part an improvement upon that shown and described in my copending application, Serial No. 583,149, filed September 22, 1910.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of this improved couchbed; Fig. 2 is a detail View of the upper portion of the folding leg; Fig. 3 is a detail view of one corner of the bed; Fig. 4 is a partly sectional view taken substantially on the line 4 .t of Fig. 3, looking toward the right; and Fig.5 is a partly sectional View taken on the line 5- 5 of Fig. 3 looking toward the right, but illustrating the two coupling members bolted together.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the figures of the drawings.

In my contemporaneously pending appli cation referred to the brackets which support the metallic fabric and carry the side bars are provided with projections which are adapted to be received in bifurcated projections formed by a part of the casting carried by the leg. Consequently the leg could be located only on the side bar at the extreme end thereof, since it had to be clamped to the bracket carrying the side bar and the fabric, and furthermore, if this bracket was not positioned exactly right it followed that the leg could not be positioned in a proper perpendicular position. In other words, if the casting was not positioned exactly true or was not exactly right on the side bar and in connection with the frame supporting the metallic fabric the leg would sometimes be slued out of its proper perpendicular position and difficulty was experienced in assembling the parts so that the leg would be in a perfectly perpendicular position. By means of the present improvement, however, in which there is provided a clamping bracket for the attachment of the leg bracket, which clamping bracket is separate and independent of the bracket supporting the metallic fabric and which can be adjusted laterally, this disadvantage is overcome, and to permit the leg to be clamped at any desired point along the side bar and to do away with the necessity of bifurcated brackets carried by the leg is also an object of the present improvement, by means of which improvement all of the advantages set forth in my said contemporaneously pending application can be accomplished, as well as the further ad vantages just pointed out, while the formation of the casting for the leg is materially simplified.

The couch bed comprises, in the preferred form thereof shown, a suitable frame work 2 for supporting the metallic fabric or spring mattress 3. This frame work in the present instance comprises a pair of metal formed side bars such as tubes 4: supporting at their ends brackets 5 to which angle iron cross bars 6 may be riveted or secured, and to which cross bars the metallic fabric or spring mattress 3 is secured in any of the usual ways. Each of the legs 8, which may be made of tubing and provided with a suitable foot or caster, is provided at its upper end with a casting 9 to which the leg is rigidly secured. This casting, in the form shown, comprises a sleeve 10 into which the upper end of the leg may be inserted and riveted and a horizontally or transversely located sleeve 11 encircling and loosely mounted on the side bar. This transversely located sleeve is provided with a pair of spaced apart projections or brackets 12 and 13, each provided with a slot 14: for the reception of a headed bolt 15. In the present instance each of theseprojections or brackets 12 and 18 is shown as a single member adapted to engage or overlap at the side a correspondingly formed projection or bracket 16 carried by a sleeve 17 bolted to the side bar. This bracket or projection 16 is preferably provided with a bolt opening 19, while the brackets 12 and 13 are provided with open-ended slots thereby to permit the leg to be shifted into overlapping engagement with the bracket 16 carrying the bolt. By forming the bracket 16 on a sleeve 17 independently of the supporting or corner bracket for the mattress and side bar, it will be observed that each leg may be located at any desired point along the side bar, since the bracket 16 may be adjusted and bolted by a suitable bolt 20 at any desired point along. the leg, and this bracket may also be swung laterally so as to bring it into proper position to permit the leg bracket to be clamped thereto so that the leg will be in a proper perpendicular position.

When it is desired to clamp each leg in its vertical supporting position, the leg is shifted toward the bracket 16, so that one of the leg brackets, as 12, will project past the bracket 16, overlapping the same at the side thereof, whereupon, by turning the wing nut 21 on the bolt 15 the leg will be readily clamped in position. When it is desired to fold the leg under the mattress the wing nut is released, the leg shifted in ward or away from the bracket 16 and swung upward, and then shifted back to bring its other projection 13 at the side of the projection 16, and thewing nut then retightened, whereupon the leg will be held in its folded position. By this improvement all of the legs can be folded under the metallic mattress in a manner which will.

be readily understood, so that the structure can be readily shipped or stored away in a small space.

By the present improvement I am enabled to provide folding legs which can be rigidly clamped in either their upright or folded positions, while at the same time these legs may be located at any desired position along the side bar, and I am also enabled to provide a structure in which these'results can be accomplished by the provision of single brackets carried by the leg sleeves instead of, as heretofore, bifurcated brackets, and to insure the further advantage of having the legs perpendicularly positioned in all cases.

I claim as my invent-ion:

1. In a couch bed or divan having longitudinally extending side bars and corner brackets for supporting a metallic fabric, folding legs having sleeves mounted on said side bars and each having a pair of single transversely projecting brackets laterally spaced apart, brackets independent of and located on the sidebars between the corner brackets and the leg sleeve brackets and adjustable laterally relatively to said corner brackets so that the leg may be positioned perpendicularly, one of each pair of said independent brackets and leg sleeve brackets being adjustable on its side bar toward the other to have either of the transversely projecting brackets of the leg overlap said independent bracket, and means for rigidly clamping either of the leg sleeve brackets to the independent bracket thereby to secure the leg either in its upright or in its folded position.

2. In a couch bed or divan having longitudinally extending side bars and corner brackets for supporting a metallic fabric, folding legs having sleeves mounted on said side bars and each having a pair of'single transversely projecting brackets laterally spaced apart, brackets independent of and located on the side bars between the corner brackets and the leg sleeve brackets and adjustable laterally relatively to said corner brackets so that the leg may be positioned perpendicularly, one of each palr of said independent brackets and leg sleeve brackets being adjustable on its side bar toward the other to have either of the transversely projecting brackets of the leg overlap said independent bracket, and means for rigidly clamping either of the leg sleeve brackets to the independent bracket thereby to secure the leg either in its upright or in its folded position, one of said overlapping brackets having an open-ended slot.

Signed at 1821 Park Row Building, New York, N. Y., this 28th day of March 1911.

MICHAEL J. 'HALPIN.

Witnesses F. E. Boron, 'GEORGE F. PURGELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

